Word: gibraltarism
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...Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew its 20-year-old friendship treaty with Turkey, which expired last fall...
...Lombardo, Gibraltar of the dance bandsmen, became an airline operator for Manhattan commuters, promised that his Long Island Airlines (4 Grumman Widgeons) would run 19 round trips a day for the hurried & well-heeled, beginning next week...
Plato started it all, according to De Camp, by describing in his Dialogues a marvelous country beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Ceuta). Life was beautiful in Atlantis, said Plato, but an earthquake had foundered the continent, leaving only shoals to mark its site...
Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside Gibraltar which sent "gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks" to the lush court of King Solomon...
...final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated: "Falangism is not fascism . . . [but] a special mode of life...